Hispanic Business/Professional Association

Mission:

HBPA's mission is to promote and serve Hispanic/Latino cultural, business, professional, and educational interests in the Inland Northwest.

HBPA's vision is to connect members to the community to build professional and personal relationships. HBPA seeks to offer professional development opportunities, provide access to resources, develop cultural education and increase community involvement.

Hispanic Graduate and Young Scholars Graduation Ceremony
Cancelled

Hope everyone is doing well, considering the current situation that we are living under, due to COVID-19, it is with deep regret that we inform you that we have decided to cancel the HPBA Hispanic and Young Scholar recognition ceremony that was scheduled for May 7th, 2020. While this is the first time we have ever cancelled, we made this decision based on the state’s current safety protocols, as the health of our students, volunteers, members and our community in general is of utmost priority.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS CRUCIAL TO KNOW AND TO PLEASE SHARE WITH PARENTS AND STUDENTS:
What does this mean regarding scholarships? We are moving forward with offering scholarships and will be extending our deadline to submit scholarship applications until 5/8/2020. Scholarship application and guidelines are on our website www.hbpaspokane.net
Graduations, Hispanic Stole and HBPA Certificate of Recognition:  We believe that all graduates regardless of their GPA, deserve to still receive a stole. If you are graduating this year, you must register by 5/8/2020 in order to receive an HBPA stole.  To register, please visit our website www.hbpaspokane.net
Young Scholars Recognition Certificate:  Every year, we recognize students who are in 7th -11th grade that have a GPA of 3.0 or above. You must register by 5/8/2020 in order to receive a certificate of recognition. To register visit our website www.hbpaspokane.net
Online Registration: In order to receive an HBPA Graduation stole and diploma or a Young Scholar Recognition certificate, you must register by 5/8/2020. Please visit our website www.hbpaspokane.net
Speaker: We believe that our students deserve an inspirational message from a speaker, so the speaker that we had in mind for this graduation will still deliver the message via our Facebook page and website. Date to be determined.
Graduate names and scholarship recipient names: Graduating students and scholarship recipient names will still be announced via FB and our website.
We are currently working on communicating this information with all schools in the area, but please share as we want to make sure our students are taking advantage of the 2020 HBPA scholarships and if you have questions, please email us at hbpaspokane@gmail.com.
I know this might not answer all questions right now, so please bear with us and stay tuned as we are essentially moving towards having a digital platform. More information to come, but for now, please share the scholarship and registration information among your contacts.
Businesses: I would also like to take a moment and remind everyone to please support your local businesses in any way possible.  For those that are restaurants, drive- through is key, and if they aren’t fast food, consider tipping them as waitress/waiters depend a lot on gratuities.

Sabes Que? Speaker Series & Membership Meetings

Please note that all HBPA monthly membership meetings have been canceled until further notice.

**Networking & Dinner- 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Sabes Qué? & Updates- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Fiesta Mexicana (1227 S. Grand Blvd, Spokane)

HBPA members and guest meet on the
second Wednesday of the month.

**Dinner and drink orders taken through the first 15 minutes of the networking time.